Comments on: My Hyde Park John Lennon Moment http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/09/18/my-hyde-park-john-lennon-moment/ A First Things Blog Sun, 19 May 2013 01:21:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: DWiss http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/09/18/my-hyde-park-john-lennon-moment/comment-page-1/#comment-24551 DWiss Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:25:50 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=21643#comment-24551 This is a beautiful prayer, but I get lost in all the Thou’s, Thee’s and Thine’s. People don’t talk like that anymore, why do we have to talk to God that way? I have to translate this into modern English to really hear the meaning.

]]> By: The Anchoress | A First Things Blog http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/09/18/my-hyde-park-john-lennon-moment/comment-page-1/#comment-24518 The Anchoress | A First Things Blog Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:35:01 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=21643#comment-24518 [...] Accomplished Imagine this awesome prayer, in your daily orisons News of the World, which a Brit friend characterizes as “the UK’s most salacious [...]

]]> By: Maria V. http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/09/18/my-hyde-park-john-lennon-moment/comment-page-1/#comment-24516 Maria V. Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:28:45 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=21643#comment-24516 Hoping that in our efforts to let His light shine throgh us, we would not loose sight of the essential truth in Christianity – we are invited by a loving Father , to hand over our debts and darknesses and those of the other too , to The Light that alone can take it away , wash it away, in His Blood and mercy , that in families , that barbed word is not a source of alienation but chance to run to Him – ‘Lord , bring You this little bitterness or pride from so and so , as my own, to You ‘ and there in , the beam of unbroken relationship prevails again , to set hearts free from pain, broken relationships !

True, it takes effort , to develop that closeness and trust in Him ..and The Church tell us how and keeps us away from ways we can loose it !

Thank God that the mighty outpouring of The Spirit of unity has desceneded on the Papal paths , for just such purposes !

]]> By: Salt Lick http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/09/18/my-hyde-park-john-lennon-moment/comment-page-1/#comment-24459 Salt Lick Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:31:46 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=21643#comment-24459 I come to First Things on Sunday morning for a little relief from the blog wars. Thanks for that.

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